Chapter 690: Test Flight
Life seems to have calmed down again, and Xia Hongsheng's life has become regular. I get up every morning to eat, and then I go to the academy, and if I have a class, I go to class, and if I don't have a class, I go to make a flower machine with the music stage. At noon, we eat in the seowon and repeat the same content in the afternoon as in the morning. If you don't have classes in the evening, you just chat in the academy for a while, and then go home. If you have a class, you will either go home or live in the school after the class, depending on your mood.
The boxes of cotton were spread out in the backyard to dry, and the old farmers who were given cotton seeds by Xia Hongsheng also began to work in the fields.
The days passed steadily and calmly, and Xia Hongsheng realized that he didn't seem to have such leisure since the end of the Chinese New Year.
It's always been either windy or rainy, and it hasn't been sunny for half a month.
The hot air balloon has never been able to take off.
The row is ready, slightly modified, the front and back open a hole, clamp the front hole, loosen the back hole, absorb the air, and then clamp the back hole, loosen the front hole, and press the air in the row into the ball skin of the hot air balloon.
Xia Hongsheng instructed the students of the forty academies to use the rafts to fill the balloon with air and make it unfurl.
However, because of the lack of good weather, although they were eager to try, they did not have the opportunity to participate in it.
Fortunately, God finally opened his eyes, and after waiting for more than half a month, he finally waited for a sunny day without wind.
There were already many people gathered in the backyard, Xia Hongsheng saw that the weather was okay, so he summoned the forty students who looked at the physical strength to press the row, so the big guys knew that the mountain chief and the gentlemen had been tinkering in the backyard for a long time, and they were going to try it today.
This thing is a novelty that the students have never seen, so people who have no class gather around to watch, and Xia Hongsheng does not stop them, allowing them to watch around.
Letai and a few gentlemen from the Mo family came, and Yuan Tiangang lived in the academy until now and never left.
"Mountain chief, let's start?!" Letai rubbed his hands and looked at Xia Hongsheng a little nervously.
"Xiahou, let's start quickly!" Yuan Tiangang was also blushing with excitement: "Poor Dao can't wait to see this immortal magic weapon!" ”
Xia Hongsheng looked at the sky, stretched out his finger and licked it in his mouth, raised it to feel it, and then nodded: "Okay!" ”
Seeing Xia Hongsheng nodding, everyone immediately became excited, Letai licked his lips, and immediately turned around and shouted: "Come, it's started!" Gentlemen, don't be stingy with your strength, connect the upper row and inflate it inside! ”
The forty or so students who had been selected because they looked physically fit immediately ran to the side of the row in pairs, one responsible for clamping and loosening the holes in the front and back of the row, and the other responsible for lifting and pressing down the row, inhaling and squeezing.
The students work in pairs, one keeps picking up and loosening back and forth, and the other keeps lifting the wooden planks on the raft to fill the row, and then presses down and sends the air into the balloon.
Although the ball skin is large, it can't stand the crowd. More than 20 rows of hoops were inflated together, and after a stick of incense, the ball skin was already obviously swollen a lot.
"Burn the fire! It's time to start the fire! Xia Hongsheng shouted.
By Xia Hongsheng's side, Qi Yong immediately went out, got into the cabin, lit a fire in the furnace, and then picked up a shovel and began to shovel pulverized coal inside.
The heat of the pulverized coal was very high, Qi Yong shoveled it for a while, and then closed the stove, and the hot gas in the furnace rose down the pipe and poured into the ball.
Everyone watched outside, only to see that the spherical skin outside the hot air balloon was getting bigger and bigger, and it was gradually stretched out, slowly leaving the ground and slowly climbing.
"Good, good! Let's do it! Xia Hongsheng was very excited when he saw that the ball skin was gradually filling.
Qi Yong worked hard to shovel pulverized coal inside, and the heat gradually increased, and the ball skin rose more and more.
The rope gradually tightened, and Xia Hongsheng immediately commanded people to start untying the sandbags. Because it was the first trial, there was no one inside, so the sandbags were tied to the outside.
As the sandbags are unfurled, the hot air balloon begins to rise slowly. The cabins below swayed, and the hot air balloons stalled.
"It's still too heavy!" Seeing that the wooden house was swaying, but it could not leave the ground, Letai said, "It's still too heavy!" ”
"You can bring it up, the fire is not big enough!" Xia Hongsheng said: "The ball skin is too big, the fire is not big enough, and the heat is not enough!" ”
As soon as the words fell, I saw a figure suddenly rushing out from behind Xia Hongsheng, and when I looked at it, it turned out to be Yuan Tiangang!
I saw him rushing into the cabin with a shovel in his hand in three steps and two steps, and quickly filled the stove with pulverized coal with Qi Yong.
"Dao Chief......" Qi Yong was taken aback.
"Burn! Burn fast! It's going to be a success! Yuan Tiangang was like a demon, Qi Yong turned a deaf ear, and regardless of the black dirt of the pulverized coal, he filled it with coal like crazy.
"Enough pulverized coal! Enough pulverized coal! Qi Yong hurriedly grabbed him: "You have to get a big coal!" ”
When Yuan Tiangang heard this, he threw the shovel, and regardless of the white robe on his body, he immediately grabbed the big coal block with both hands and threw it into the furnace.
Qi Yong shoveled pulverized coal on the side, while Yuan Tiangang threw the coal into it, and the two of them were covered in darkness and sweating.
The cabin shook suddenly, and the two of them stumbled, and hurriedly grabbed the handrail on the wall next to them so that they didn't fall, only to hear a burst of cheers outside, and then felt the fluttering under their feet, and the two immediately knew that the hot air balloon had left the ground!
"Dao Chief! We've got to go down! Qi Yong grabbed Yuan Tiangang and rushed towards the door.
When I arrived at the door, I heard Xia Hongsheng shouting loudly below: "Qi Yong! Michigan! Jump! Jump off! Jump! ”
Seeing the hot air balloon rising higher and higher, in the blink of an eye, it was already more than two feet away from the ground.
"Dao Chief! Jump! Qi Yong pulled Yuan Tiangang and shouted.
"Sanqing Dao is on top!" Yuan Tiangang whispered, but suddenly pushed Qi Yong down!
"Dao Chief!" Xia Hongsheng and a few people shouted below, Qi Yong jumped down, rolled on the ground, and immediately stood up, and when he saw Yuan Tiangang standing there with his eyes closed, his lips moving quickly chanting, he immediately went over and hugged the rope connected to the ground, and pulled it down hard.
"Qi Yong, let go!" Yuan Tiangang opened his eyes on it and shouted: "The pursuit of the poor Dao is all here, the Sanqing Dao is on the top, this is the blessing of heaven for my Taoism, and the poor truth should be tried in person!" ”
Seeing that Qi Yong, who was pulling the rope, was about to be taken away, several people went over and grabbed Qi Yong's leg and dragged Qi Yong down.
Yuan Tiangang grabbed the wall with one hand and closed the door of the cabin with the other.
The hot air balloon rises higher and higher, reaching into the air. All the people below looked up and saw that the behemoth was flying into the clouds, and not only did they all grow their mouths, but they were so shocked that they couldn't even make a sound.
There were so many people watching the whole back, but the pins could be heard! (To be continued.) )